Members of the New York City Ballet warm up on a Juilliard School stage in this unpublished image from our photography archives.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JODI COBB, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Buddhist monks at Angkor Wat stroll before the ruins of an ancient Khmer kingdom in an image taken by then-National Geographic president and editor Gilbert Grosvenor for an annual message in the December 1959 issue.
PHOTOGRAPH BY GILBERT M. GROSVENOR, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
An incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark, which converts waste into energy for homes, doubles as a recreational site with a ski slope and hiking trail. The image of the so-called "Copenhill" was taken for a story in the March 2020 issue about the circular economy movement.
PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCA LOCATELLI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
One of the world's smallest frogs poses on a fingertip at the Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve in Cuba. The image was taken for a story in the November 2003 issue on the rich biodiversity of the island nation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE WINTER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A teacher plays the piano for her kindergarten class in Tokyo, Japan, in an image taken for a story in the April 1990 issue on the traditional roles of Japanese women.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A noodle shop owner covered in flour works in the Kowloon Walled City, once a densely populated enclave in British-controlled Hong Kong. The image was taken for a story in the February 1991 issue on the uncertainty before China resumed its rule over Hong Kong in 1997.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JODI COBB, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
City lights in Portugal and Spain and an aurora are seen from the International Space Station. The image was taken for a story in the November 2015 issue about using satellite images to study climate change.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A diver swims with an octopus in the Mediterranean Sea. The image was published in a story from famed explorer Jacques Cousteau about underwater exploration that was published in the October 1952 issue.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JACQUES COUSTEAU, P. TAILLIEZ, AND F. DUMAS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A family examines a circle of mushrooms, a phenomenon that medieval Europeans once called a fairy ring, in a green meadow in New Jersey. The image was published in a story about fungi in the October 1965 issue.
PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL ZAHL, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A Nenets child in Russia urges his mother to make the reindeer sleigh go faster. The image was published in a story in the October 2017 issue about the Indigenous reindeer herders dealing with climate change and natural gas mining.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
An Indian flying fox poses at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska. The image was published online in April 2017.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A farmer drives a sled drawn by horses to harvest the last of the tobacco crop on his hundred-acre farm near Trade, Tennessee. The image was taken for a story in the February 1993 issue about life in the heart of Appalachia.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
An ultra-Orthodox man wraps himself in a prayer shawl at a synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. This image was taken for a story in the August 1975 issue about Hasidic Jews living in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NATHAN BENN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION